Chris Forrester is one of the most experienced and highly regarded journalists in the field. His insight and analysis, particularly in the satellite and pay-TV arena, is highly prized. He has written for all the major business journals in the sector as well as several national newspapers.
Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s President & COO, is TIME magazine’s April 2026 front cover personality, and has delivered some valuable insights into SpaceX’s plans and expectations for Starlink and the company’s other divisions. However, she politely declined to say anything about the SpaceX Initial Public Offering (IPO). Some of her comments within the magazine were perhaps […]
Satellite operator Globalstar has been up for sale informally for some time. Now it seemingly has two potential suitors. Apple uses Globalstar to connect its own emergency phone services on some iPhone models. Industry analyst Dr Tim Farrar, in a blog on recent events, said that the sale process started in October 2025 with Amazon […]
There are many market rumours suggesting that Elon Musk’s SpaceX will mount its much-anticipated Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the next few days. However, there are some very different guesses as to how the IPO will be structured and what it might mean for the overall valuation of SpaceX, including Starlink. One report suggests that […]
A report from analysts at Quilty Space says that SpaceX’s Starlink broadband by satellite system has crossed 10 million subscribers and is now tracking toward $20 billion (€17.2bn) in 2026 revenue. “The business looks nothing like it did 18 months ago,” noted the report. Quilty forecasts that Starlink will achieve 16.8 million subscribers (up 33 […]
EchoStar has paid down $1.8 billion (€1.5bn) in debts owned to various creditors. The payments settle 82 per cent of the debts incurred by EchoStar and its Dish direct-to-home pay-TV operation. More than 96 per cent of stakeholders supported the plan. As a result, DISH DBS now faces no long-term debt maturities until July this […]
AsiaSat, claiming contract breaches, has started legal actions against Indian broadcasting giants Zee Entertainment and JioStar. AsiaSat is being restricted from transmissions into India effective March 31st. One of AsiaSat’s complaints is India’s restrictive access to satellite spectrum and India’s approach to foreign companies operating – or wishing to operate – in India’s expanding space […]
Tech giant Nvidia has revealed that it is working on a suite of new chipsets which will be combined with a processing computers for use in space and orbiting data-centres. “It’s going to start data-centers out in space. Of course, in space there’s no conduction, no convection, there’s just radiation, so we have to figure […]
Analysys Mason’s lead analyst Christopher Baugh, in a review ahead of the industry gathering in Washington DC for the annual satellite show (March 23rd-26th, World Satellite Business Week), says that the satellite and space sector is changing, from what was once a steady march of tech progress, to a rapid, multidimensional transformation driven by geopolitical […]
Starcloud, a business based in Redmond, Washington state, and which is a firm believer in orbiting data centres, has filed an application with the FCC. On March 13th the FCC accepted the scheme. In essence, the application seeks to launch 88,000 orbiting satellites with an eye on expected growth of AI. “Starcloud is designing its […]
Lynk Global, in partnership with SES. and its affiliates, is developing a multi-orbit solution to more efficiently and effectively deploy global direct-to-device (D2D) services utilising Lynk’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and SES’s Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary-Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites. Lynk’s US base is in Chevy Chase, Maryland (a suburb of Washington DC). To support […]
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